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    Over 60,000 Nike shoes were lost at sea when shipping containers were washed overboard during a storm. The shoes washed ashore over several years along coastlines across the northern Pacific. By tracking the locations where individual shoes came ashore and the dates they arrived, scientists were able to use the path of the shoes to study ocean currents and validate their models of circulation patterns in the Pacific.

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    Over 60,000 Nike shoes were lost at sea when shipping containers were washed overboard during a storm. The shoes washed ashore over several years along coastlines across the northern Pacific. By tracking the locations where individual shoes came ashore and the dates they arrived, scientists were able to use the path of the shoes to study ocean currents and validate their models of circulation patterns in the Pacific.

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    Over 60,000 Nike shoes were lost at sea when shipping containers were washed overboard during a storm. The shoes washed ashore over several years along coastlines across the northern Pacific. By tracking the locations where individual shoes came ashore and the dates they arrived, scientists were able to use the path of the shoes to study ocean currents and validate their models of circulation patterns in the Pacific.

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    Name: _______________________________________

    Hour: _________________

    The Nike Shoe Investigation

    On May 27, 1990 the freighter Hansa Carrier, enroute from


    Korea to the U.S., encountered a severe North Pacific storm.
    During the storm, a large wave washed twenty-one shipping
    containers overboard. Five of these 21 containers held a
    shipment of approximately 80,000 Nike shoes ranging from
    children's shoes to large hiking boots. It has been estimated
    that four of the five containers opened into the stormy
    waters, releasing over 60,000 shoes into the North Pacific Ocean.

    The shoes washed ashore one at a time. Despite a year in


    the ocean, much of the footwear was in fine shape and
    wearable after washing. Unfortunately, the shoes were not tied
    to one another so that matching pairs did not always reach the
    beach together. Each shoe however, had an identifying serial
    number. As people found them, they held swap meets to find
    matched pairs

    The accident turned into a scientific gold mine. With


    information on the locations where the shoes were found,
    scientists were able to use the spill to test and calibrate their
    ocean current model.

    In this investigation we will consider the starting point for the


    ocean adventure these shoes had, look at the places where
    shoes washed ashore, then make some conclusions about the
    general circulation patterns in the Pacific Ocean.

    Your job is to find your matching Nike shoe that is scattered on


    the shores of MSN, plot its location (along with the locations of
    other found shoes), and answer questions about this occurrence.
    Directions

    1.. QUIETLY search the halls of MSN for your matching shoe. (If I can hear you talking, it means you
    are talking too loud. I will not hesitate to take away your sheet and give you an F on this assignment.)

    2.. Once you have located your matching shoe record its location.

    3 Find and record the 9 other locations that your classmates found their shoes (including your
    location, there is a total of 10 different locations that shoes were found).

    4. Return to Mrs. Matzka’s classroom and plot your coordinates and label map.
    NIKE SHOE INVESTIGATION (what your pages should look like)
    Glue your shoe on page 68.

    Plot the location of the shoe spill on the map. Put a star next you your shoe.
    Number Coordinates Country
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    QUESTIONS (Just write the answers in complete sentences. )


    1. Summary of what happened: the real story. 5 sentences
    minimum

    2. What do we call the path the Nike shoes took?

    3. What causes the surface currents to flow in this pattern?


    (Need to have a full answer that includes Coriolis Effect and
    wind currents)

    4. Explain why all of the Nike shoes didn’t end up in the


    same location.
    NIKE SHOE INVESTIGATION
    Glue in the map on page 69

    On the map:
    1. Label the 5 surface currents that impacted the shoes.
    2. Label the 2 wind currents that impacted the shoes.
    3. Label the gyre that impacted the shoes.
    4. Add the location of the spill with an X & the date.
    5. Add the year from the dates shoes washed to each place.

    shoe spill, May 27, 1990 48°N, 161°W


    250 recovered, March 26, 1991 59°N, 139°W
    200 recovered, May 18, 1991 55°N, 130°W
    100 recovered, February, 1991 53°N, 131°W
    200 recovered, November, 1990 49°N, 126°W
    200 recovered, February, 1991 47°N, 125°W
    150 recovered, April 4, 1991 44°N, 124°W
    200 recovered, May 9-10, 1991 40°N, 124°W
    several recovered, January, 1993 19°N, 155.5°W
    several recovered, January, 1994 32°N, 132°E <--East!
    several recovered, April, 1996 54°N, 133°W
    Number Coordinates Country
    1

    10

    Number Coordinates Country


    1

    10

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